Transform Your Future This CTE Month

Joel Conner • February 6, 2025

Fast-Track Your Future with Career and Technical Education

February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, a time to celebrate the life-changing impact CTE programs have on students. As a proud partner of Get There, Florida's workforce education initiative, we're excited to highlight the incredible opportunities CTE offers.


CTE programs across Florida are designed to unlock potential and fuel both personal and professional growth. For students eager to fast-track their success, CTE provides a direct pathway to in-demand careers. With 17 diverse career pathways, students gain valuable, hands-on experience, often completing affordable programs in a year or less and launching into high-wage jobs.


The best part? Many of these high-paying, in-demand careers—in fields like artificial intelligence, manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and information technology—don't require a four-year degree. The possibilities are truly endless.

Florida is witnessing record-breaking CTE enrollment, with over 800,000 K-12 students and an impressive 480,000 postsecondary CTE students—a remarkable 30% increase in postsecondary enrollment since Governor DeSantis took office.


This CTE Month, join us in celebrating the power of CTE and the doors it opens. Learn more about CTE and Florida's workforce education initiative by visiting GetThereFL.com.

Xello is Florida’s official, K-12 career planning and work-based learning coordination provider. With Xello, students can design a plan for their future by providing a high-quality career development experience. In the Xello platform, students can: Build personalized profiles to display their interests, skills and abilities. Take career matching assessments to guide and motivate exploration. Explore their options by reviewing career profiles, labor market data and postsecondary training opportunities. Set both short and long-term goals and track their progress with academic course planning and managing the college application process. Prepare for the world of work by developing a professional resume and creating shareable portfolios, and applying for local work-based learning opportunities. Continually learn, reflect and re-assess their plans with the support of built-in college and career readiness lessons. It has been professionally translated into Spanish and can support other preferred languages. 


Xello: xello.world/en/florida-college-career-ready 

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